Associate Vice President - Engineering (8-14 Yrs) Noida (Systems/Product Software)

Job Title: Associate Vice President - Engineering Company: Simpa Networks (Simpa Energy India Pvt. Ltd, part of EUR 75 billion Engie SA, a Global Energy conglomerate) Location : Delhi NCR Field : Engineering, Transformation and Analytics Reporting to : CEO Job Functions : Technology, Strategic and Operational leadership SUMMARY : We are a fast-paced, mission-driven company thats addressing the massive market opportunity to sell solar-as-a-service in rural India. We- re building a world-class team committed to changing the way people buy solar. We are looking to expand from 7 branches to 160 branches over the next 3 years. The business model runs on high volume of low value transactions and therefore needs IT-led workflows to support its day-to-day operations and scaling. In that sense, IT and BI are front-office. Simpa Networks seeks a dynamic, business-oriented AVP with scaling mindset to lead its IT and BI and take up the unique challenge of: Managing IT and BI as a front-office business role with responsibility for delivering business metrics; Leveraging our strong mission of bringing clean energy to rural homes to drive mission-minded result orientation in internal teams and external partners; Working at two levels- provide business continuity assurance for day-to-day operations whilst building scalable IT and BI systems that can be rapidly deployed and monitored across 160 branches About Simpa Networks : Simpa (www.simpanetworks.com) sells solar-as-a-service to energy poor households and micro-enterprises in rural India. The company has a bold mission: to make modern energy simple, affordable, and accessible to everyone. The company is part of a EUR 75 billion dollar ENGIE SA Group (www.engie.com). Simpa customers make a small initial payment to get a high-quality solar PV system installed. Then its simply pay-as-you-go for the energy service. Each payment for energy also adds towards the final purchase price. Once fully paid, the system unlocks permanently and delivers free solar energy. The innovative pricing model is called Progressive Purchase, and Simpa is growing quickly in northern India. Simpa helps its customers transform a daily expenditure for energy into ownership of a valuable asset. The award-winning business model is disruptive and highly scalable, re-imagining the value chain for delivering energy access at the base of the economic pyramid. The company is scaling quickly and IT and BI are central to our ability to address the massive market opportunity. In real time we collect large amounts of data about how our customers use our solutions, about the technical performance of our products, about customer payment behaviour, about our large and mobile field force (sales service), about our customer interactions, about our supply chain logistics network. This is big data, and a massively exciting platform for a strategic and action oriented IT professional to lead. Key Responsibility Areas : The key responsibility areas for the Engineering Lead will be primarily focused on following: Managing Business-As-Usual for the existing platforms and technology stack, IT Asset Management, IT Access Management, Digital Cloud Infrastructure Management, Release and Change Management of the existing platforms, and Customer Support pertaining to internal users and stakeholders. Defining SOPs and control processes to ensure the information control resides with Simpa whilst ensuring flexibility of working with vendor partners as well and defining controls and processes related to IT with internal users as well. Driving Digital Transformation : Working along with stakeholders from other verticals like Operations, Process Controls, Finance, Product to carve out the requirements, translate the same into an IT requirement, Build and Execution of the functional Requirement into IT Software. Involved in the end to end execution right from business ideation or defining problem statement to carving out business requirements, Development, QA, Production rollout to Adoption at the ground level and measuring the RoI intended out of the release. Building softwares and systems for Non functional adherences like Security, Logging, Auditing, Monitoring, Exception Management, Batch Jobs Management, Performance and SLAs, Backup- s, Data Management - archival, purging and throughput. Working with Cloud infrastructure partners to ensure DevOps KPIs are met. Building Systems for Operational and Business Intelligence : Process Assurance Reports wrt Functional and Technical aspects like Uptime Guarantees, Speed of processing, Batch Jobs executions, Financial Reports, Portfolio Metrics used by Operations team, Automation of MIS and Reports Other Key Responsibilities : - Define the strategy and execute the projects at fast pace - Ability to drive the team and take architectural design decisions - Manage vendors and partners - Work o...

Required Skills : English